My journey to pursuing happiness
Have you ever felt you were not good enough because you never took the leap to follow your dreams and create a new life you love? How easy is it to drift away from your purpose and your dreams, to keep on juggling life as we take care of everyone else but ourselves? My name is Manuela Garcia and I help women to reclaim their power in their life, to love themselves again and create a new life with love and purpose after divorce or breakup.
My own journey pursuing happiness and a deep understanding of life has given me insight into the many challenges one encounters after a break in a relationship, especially when living overseas. This gives me a high level of empathy, intuition, respect and understanding that I always bring to our coaching sessions.
My Story
I was born in Spain in the heart of a beautiful family, being the oldest of three siblings. I have always believed in love since that’s all I remember from the happy times together growing up as a child. Eventually, I fell in love with my pen-pal and followed my heart, leaving my Law Degree and moving all the way to London where we married a few years later and where my daughter Grace was born. I am blessed with so many memories spanning those 10 years we lived in the UK, from working in corporate banking to the joys and struggles of becoming a Mum in a foreign country.
I know divorce it’s one of the hardest things that anyone can go through, especially when you come from a family like mine in Spain where everyone is happily married forever and ever. I was sadly the first one in my family with a marriage that ended up in divorce!
After half a life together, destiny brought us to New Zealand from London, together with our 5 year old girl at the time. We were not prepared for the emotional stress and pressures that came with relocating to the other side of the world.
My Dad was sick with cancer at the time, but I kept telling myself we would be in New Zealand just for a year. My Dad sadly passed away only months after our arrival to Auckland, and that triggered a warrior inside me not willing to live life in sadness anymore, wanted to be happy with the mission of finding a purpose to bring meaning to my life, and just keep going. It is so confronting to lose a loved one, a big reminder that we won’t be here forever. It touches the deepest of our souls and makes us wonder if we are here to make a difference and not to waste our always precious time.
The judgement from others trying to understand the ‘whys’ behind the breakup didn’t really help. As if it wasn’t hard enough to heal the wounds and overcome the beliefs of blame, and not being worthy of love. It was possibly a blessing in disguise to be so far away from everyone we knew, to find my own space to grieve my Dad, to also grieve my marriage and to heal.
It’s been 10 years now, and this is my time to be of service to other women who want to reclaim their sparkle back after their divorce or break-up.
